A White House spokesman said President Obama viewed Michael Jackson as a spectacular performer but noted that his life had sad and tragic aspects.

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Jackson, as we've noted before, is a highly capable person.

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For lack of a better name, it is what historian Walter Russell Mead has referred to as Jacksonianism, after Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the US. As Mead noted in a 1999 article in The National Interest titled "The Jacksonian Tradition, " the most popular and enduring US model for foreign policy is far more flexible than either the isolationist or the neoconservative model.

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